Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 1 /

Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 1 / / Colleen McDannell.

Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, Volume 1 explores faith through action from...

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McDannell, Colleen,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2002
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Princeton Readings in Religions
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Princeton Readings in Religions
  • CONTENTS
  • Contributors
  • Introduction / McDannell, Colleen
  • Praying: Individual and Communal Worship
  • 1. The Amidah in Colonial American Synagogues / Ashton, Dianne
  • 2. Seventeenth-Century Puritan Conversion Narratives / Reis, Elizabeth
  • 3. The Book of Common Prayer and Eighteenth-Century Episcopalians / Mullin, Robert Bruce
  • 4. The Green Corn Ceremony of the Muskogees / Martin, Joel W.
  • 5. The Way of Holiness: The Friday Meeting / Schneider, A. Gregory
  • 6. Reception of Novices into the Order of the Sisters of St. Benedict / Killen, Patricia O'Connell
  • Singing: Songs of Devotion, Praise, and Protest
  • 7. English Hymnody in Early America / McClymond, Michael J.
  • 8. The 1842 Hymnal of Penina Moise / Ashton, Dianne
  • 9. Catholic Song i n the Antebellum United States / Grimes, Robert R. / Grimes, S. J.
  • 10. African American Spirituals / Harvey, Paul
  • 11. Ojibwe Funerary Hymn Singing / McNally, Michael D.
  • 12. Temperance Songs and Hymns / Gifford, Carolyn DeSwarte
  • Teaching: Learning How to Live Correctly
  • 13. The Celebration of Marriage in the Dutch Reformed Church / Meeter, Daniel James
  • 14. The Visions of Plenty-coups / Martin, Joel W.
  • 15. Mary Anne Sadlier's Advice for Irish Catholic Girls / Hernadi, Liz Szabo
  • 16. John Humphrey Noyes, the Oneida Community, and Male Continence / McClymond, Michael J.
  • 17. Is Life Worth Living? / Croce, Paul Jerome
  • 18. In His Steps: A Social Gospel Novel / Olson, Janet C.
  • Healing: Health, Happiness, and the Miraculous
  • 19. The Spiritual Meanings of Illness in Eighteenth-Century New England / Minkema, Kenneth Ρ.
  • 20. Supernaturalism and Healing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Underwood, Grant
  • 21. Christian Physiology and Diet Reform / Gardella, Peter
  • 22. Sickness, Death, and Illusion in Christian Science / Prentiss, Craig R.
  • 23. The Miracles of St. Anthony of Padua / Meagher, Timothy J.
  • Imagining: The Unseen World
  • 24. The Life and Death of Mother Marie de Saint Joseph / Boss, Julia
  • 25. Possession, Witchcraft, and the Demonic in Puritan Religious Culture / Minkema, Kenneth Ρ.
  • 26. Speech of Sose-Há-Wä and the Code of Handsome Lake / Dennis, Matthew
  • 27. A Methodist Dream of Heaven and Homeland / Schneider, A. Gregory
  • 28. African-American Vision Stories / Reis, Elizabeth
  • Persuading: Witnessing, Controversies, and Polemics
  • 29. Native American Visionary Experience and Christian Missions / McNally, Michael D.
  • 30. American Anti-Catholic Pornography / Gardella, Peter
  • 31. The Christian Doctrine of Slavery / Harvey, Paul
  • 32. Trance Lecturers in Antebellum America / Braude, Ann
  • 33. The Cremation versus Burial Debate / Prothero, Stephen
  • Index

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